Sound the Shofar for DC Domestic Workers (JUFJ): Fri, September 23, 9am – 10am
RSVP HERE

LABOR: Studies in Working Class History's 2022 Big Book Forum: Kelly Lytle Hernández's Bad Mexicans

Fri, September 23, 2pm – 4pm
RSVP HERE

DC Labor to Labor Canvass: Sat, September 24, 9am – 2pm

Wards 4, 5 & 6;Info/sign-up here.

NoVA Labor Walks: Sat, September 24, 9am – 1pm

4536 John Marr Dr, Annandale, VA 22003, USA (map)

For more info [email protected] or call 317-489-2501 (Bob Zabel) NOTE NEW CONTACT!

Baltimore CLC member-to-member canvass: Sat, September 24, 9am – 12pm

836 Ritchie Hwy, Severna Park, MD 21146, USA (map)

Maryland Labor to Labor Walks (3 locations): Sat, September 24, 9:30am – 2:00pm

Info/RSVP here

Labor Day with The Commanders: Sun, September 25, 1pm – 6pm

CLICK HERE FOR TICKETS.

Pam Parker Concert Sunday (Online): Sun, September 25, 7pm – 9pm
Vocalist Pam Parker, known for her wide repertoire of labor songs, will perform live with DC-area musicians. A concert link will be sent to everyone who sends a payment of their choice to any of these: CashApp ($PamCash1234), ApplePay (3015234892), Venmo (@Pam-Parker-79 or [email protected]), or PayPal (@PamParkerMD or [email protected])

ATU 689 members keep riding public safe
ATU Local 689 tweeted congratulations to bus operators Allen Whitaker and Rail Operator Fonda Moore Thursday “for their work to keep the riding public safe!” Whitaker and Moore were honored by the WMATA Board yesterday.

Unions hit doors for Moore
32BJ SEIU tweeted earlier this week that “members in MD w/@CASAinAction think this is great news that will add fuel to the fire behind our door knocking to elect @iamwesmoore Governor of Maryland!”

AFSCME MD “feeling inspired”
“We had a great executive board retreat last week,” tweeted AFSCME Council 3 on Monday. “It's always a great time coming together to share ideas, discussing our visions for our locals and the council, and feeling inspired by one another!”

CSA golf photos posted
Photos from the September 12 CSA Golf Tournament are now posted here; “Let us know team and/or player names and we’ll update!” says CSA Executive Director Letycia Pastrana. Photo by Freda McDonald.

APWU’s Briscoe on “The Anthrax Attacks”
Catch APWU’s Dena Briscoe on the podcast of yesterday’s Your Rights At Work on the new Netflix doc “The Anthrax Attacks” with director Dan Krauss. “I appreciated (the DC postal workers’) courage,” Krauss told hosts Chris Garlock and Ed Smith. “Their dignity and the grace that they brought to every answer they gave me. I left those interviews feeling like there's hope for humanity, that these are the kind of people I want to spend time with.” CLICK HERE NOW to listen.

Labor Quote: Lewis Hine

“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.”

American photographer Lewis Hine was born in Oshkosh, Wisc. on Septemebr 25, 1874.

TODAY'S LABOR HISTORY

This week’s Labor History Today podcast: It’s not working on the railroad. Last week’s show: A miasma of metals.

September 23
California Gov. Gray Davis (D) signs legislation making the state the first to offer workers paid family leave. Eleven states and the District of Columbia have now enacted paid family leave programs – 2002

September 24
Canada declares the Wobblies illegal – 1918

September 25
Two African-American sharecroppers are killed during an ultimately unsuccessful cotton-pickers strike in Lee County, Ark. By the time the strike had been suppressed, 15 African-Americans had died and another six had been imprisoned. A white plantation manager was killed as well – in 1891

- David Prosten

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